Assunta Martin retired from teaching English to international students at Oklahoma State University in 2016. She spent a decade teaching in Japan before returning to the US. She has written articles for various academic journals and co-authored text books currently used in Japan. With retirement, she was able to continue to research this narrative which had attracted her interest many years before.
The turbulent chaos that reigned during the last quarter of the nineteenth century in the Old West was no more dramatic than in the Indian Territories of pre-state Oklahoma. Bass Reeves, the first African-American deputy marshal employed west of the Mississippi River,
